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TEL AVIV — The Islamic State in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula published photos of Wilyat Sinai, the jihadist organization’s Egyptian branch, burning large amounts of drug plants grown by the Sawarkeh tribe, many of whose members fill key roles in the terrorist organization.

TEL AVIV — Egyptian authorities are concerned that Turkey will try to sabotage the presidential elections scheduled for March to harm the position of incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, an Arab diplomatic source has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Sixteen jihadists from the Gaza Strip have been killed in recent days in Syria where they fought among the ranks of the Islamic State, senior jihadist Abu Abdel Rahman al-Maqdesi told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has released a statement harshly criticizing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Freidman for his factual statement that the Palestinian Authority rewards terror by way of its payments to Palestinians who are imprisoned by Israel or were killed due to their involvement in terrorist attacks against Israel.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian officials and terrorist groups are claiming that the Trump administration’s threat to cut funds to the Palestinian Authority and to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, amounts to a blackmail attempt.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces recently set out on a large-scale operation of arrests against Islamic State-aligned operatives, especially those belonging to the Salafist sect, in wake of a video clip released by Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — Coptic Christians in Egypt celebrated Christmas on Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi himself participating in prayers for the holiday in Cairo’s biggest cathedral.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Central Committee will convene in the middle of this month to discuss the formation of a Palestinian strategy to respond the historic decision of President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State organization, has released a video in which it accuses Hamas of betraying Islam and fighting against jihadists in the Gaza Strip, escalating the ongoing propaganda war between the two terrorist groups.

TEL AVIV — The riots in the streets of Iran have excited social media networks in the Sunni Arab world ever since they first broke out, with many expressing their hope that the confrontations would harm the extremist Iranian regime, which is trying to exert its influence over Arab states.

Fatah will celebrate 53 years since its establishment on Sunday in a series of events that will begin with a ceremony at the grave of the group’s founder – former Palestinian Authority president and arch terrorist Yasser Arafat.

Seven Palestinian jihadists residing in the Gaza Strip have managed to get across the border fence between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in order to join the ranks of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State active in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a senior jihadist in Gaza.

American sites in the Palestinian territories have been declared as legitimate targets by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hani Sawabteh, an official from the group, confirmed to Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have confiscated rockets that were in the possession of Liwaa Al Tawhid, a Palestinian jihadist organization that was formed when its member broke away from the Salah Al Din Brigades, the so-called military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist in the group told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the so-called military wing of the Marxist-oriented Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is threating to attack American targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories – the first time it has publicly done so in decades.

TEL AVIV – Arab world social media was in celebratory mode in the hours following the UN General Assembly’s nonbinding vote seeking to essentially rescind President Donald Trump’s declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian Legislative Council member Ashraf Jomaa, one of the top officials of the Fatah movement in Gaza led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, launched a Palestinian initiative on Thursday in the form of a coalition of organizations called the Jerusalem Revolution.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida, considered the official publication of the Palestinian National Authority, is calling on Palestinians to prepare for a “confrontation” with Israel over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have arrested Salafist operatives accused of firing rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip since the recent escalation following U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

TEL AVIV — An Egyptian military court has handed down a sentence of six years in prison to an army officer for announcing in a video uploaded to social media that he intended to run for president in elections scheduled for next year, according to reports and the individual’s attorney.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian organizations are seeking to escalate protests against President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Talal Abou Zarifeh, a politburo member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.

TEL AVIV — The Khaled Bin Walid group, subservient to the Islamic State and active in southern Syria, recently released photos purporting to show the executions of three Syrian civilians accused of cooperating with other so-called opposition organizations.

TEL AVIV — Recent Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have focused on targeting Hamas’ elite units, including positions held by its naval commando unit, an informed source with the terrorist group told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for his aggressive speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Hamas has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to its “property,” mainly in the loss of dozens of rockets, as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza over the weekend, according to initial estimates from within the group.

TEL AVIV — Hamas public security forces have arrested a cell involved in recent rocket fire at Israel from the Gaza Strip in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech in which he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian jihadists are calling for a continuation of ongoing clashes with Israeli soldiers and security forces in wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV — Egypt’s chairman of the Administrative Prosecution Authority has decided to bring charges against cleric from Al Azhar University, the most important religious institution in the Sunni world, for allegedly saying in one of his classes that the state can’t execute those accused of murdering Coptic Christian civilians.

TEL AVIV — Reacting on social media, commentators in the Arab world responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel with a mix of outrage, conspiracy theories, and anti-Semitic statements.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly objected to the move of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his office said in a special statement released Tuesday and carried by the official Palestinian news agency.

TEL AVIV — Marwan Issa, the leader of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is currently in Cairo for talks with Egyptian intelligence accompanied by Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ political leader in Gaza, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Last week’s mortar fire from the Al Quds Brigades, Iran-backed Islamic Jihad’s so-called military wing, was part of a larger attack that the organization had planned but failed, member of the Palestinian terrorist organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian and Arab activists on social media have been spreading the hashtag “#jerusalem_capital_of_palestine” in response to repeated reports in Israeli media that U.S. President Donald Trump has returned to considering the relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and intends to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel in a speech on Wednesday.

Breitbart Jerusalem has obtained a list of conditions purportedly drafted by the Islamic State in response to a ceasefire offer from Syrian opposition elements, meant to include IS on one side, and Turkey, the Kurdish PKK and even the U.S. military on the other.